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Can't be confirmed as circlejerkers, but I'm seeing a really high volume of baby accounts posting complete trash today, stuff that's completely off the wall unrelated to atheism, spam, racist stuff, nonsense. Much more than we usually get. I wonder if we're still being raided by /b/ today.

Half the front page of /r/atheism is more retarded than 'le' and copypasta.

Wow. Zero perspective.

...but to be honest most of the jerky shit comes from other subs.

Holy validation Batman! I was considering not doing the circlejerker contribution list next month, but with the possibility of changes in moderation, it might be interesting to see what happens. Also, there's the joy of reporting some of the things I find and seeing bans happen.

All in all, though, it's good to see that /u/Jij has a perspective on these things. If only other people were able to understand these things without having to mod the subreddit.

So, I'm becoming more aware of something that I kind of already knew, but I'd never thought too deeply about. It's tangentially related to this list, because it involves intentionally shallow content disengenously planted and promoted. Although for different reasons.

Namely, spamming and vote gaming for profit. I know that /r/atheism has at times intentionally weakened the spam filter (while strengthening it in other areas), unspamming submissions in the name of a free forum. But when it comes down to it, spammers do end up adding a chunk of shitty content to the pool. I just had a short conversation about it on subredditdrama. This conversation got me thinking about it specifically in regards to potential changes without /u/skeen as top moderator. Such as banning domains that can clearly be established as very strongly suspect for spamming. Not targeting the content, but the domains themselves that have engaged in dishonest brokering. Of course you'd have to have that clearly and transparently established.